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THE UNNATURALS

Schreie in der Nacht

1969 • DE HMDB
May 30, 1969

During a thunderstorm, a group of members of London's high society seek refuge in a remote mansion in the countryside. They are received by Uriat and his mother, who appears to be able to communicate with the dead. The guests engage in a séance, but it will reveal each and everyone's darkest secrets.

Directors

Antonio Margheriti Antonio Margheriti

Cast

Joachim Fuchsberger as Ben Taylor

Joachim Fuchsberger

Ben Taylor

 Marianne Koch as Vivian Taylor

Marianne Koch

Vivian Taylor

 Helga Anders as Elisabeth

Helga Anders

Elisabeth

Claudio Camaso

Alfred Sinclair

 Dominique Boschero as Margarete

Dominique Boschero

Margarete

 Luciano Pigozzi as Uriat

Luciano Pigozzi

Uriat

Marianne Leibl

Uriat's Mother

 Giuliano Raffaelli as Archibald Barrett

Giuliano Raffaelli

Archibald Barrett

Marco Morelli

Richard Wright

 Gudrun Schmidt as Diana

Gudrun Schmidt

Diana
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Crew
Production: Artur Brauner (Producer)
Screenplay: Antonio Margheriti (Writer)
Music: Carlo Savina (Music)
Cinematography: Riccardo Pallottini (Director of Photography)

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Marco Castellini •
Five people, linked by family ties or business, find themselves having to take a short car journey together. Caught in a sudden storm, they are forced to take refuge in an ancient hunting lodge inhabited by an old medium and her son. They decide to participate in a seance in which the spirits of the people they have unjustly harmed will return to seek revenge. Perhaps the best horror directed by Margheriti, a kind of summary of the characteristics and most interesting aspects of the Italian Gothic tradition: obsessions related to sexuality and sin, avarice and betrayal, unsettling eroticism and the sapphic component, claustrophobic and looming places, and finally a destiny that, using terrible ghosts, delivers justice sparing no one, guilty or innocent. Excellent the sequence that closes the film, the mud flood that engulfs the cursed house sweeping away and, at the same time, "hiding" all the horror that took place in that place. Highly recommended!
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5 /10

A group of English folks (well, German, actually) are trying to get to their home amidst the mother of all thunderstorms that is washing out all the roads. With their car stuck in the mud, they have to walk to a nearby house inhabited by "Uriat" (Luciano Pigozza aka Alan Collins) and his mother. Now this woman (Marianne Leibl) is quite adept at séances and soon the group are sitting around the table where truths will out. These truths, played out via a series of flashbacks, are unsavoury and depict some of the group as malevolent, murdering, monsters. The more we learn, the more dangerous it gets for all concerned. Will they all leave that place alive? Aside from the audio of a biblical storm the sort not seen since Noah, the rest of this is all rather cheaply cobbled together with far too much (badly dubbed) dialogue that, in the end, presents us with a sort of brutal episode of "Upstairs Downstairs". Quite why there is an English setting is anyone's guess - it seems to create additional impediments to the already rather predictably weak characterisations. Eighty minutes felt a great deal longer as it lumbered along to a conclusion about which I simply didn't care. I wouldn't bother, I'm afraid.

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